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the milk, which contained only 2.7 per cent. fat, was sold as it
came from the cow. It is curious that people are willing to
buy such poor milk when, for the same money, they could
get milk with 4 per cent. fat.
6. A total of £16 was imposed in fines, and £5 10s. 6d. in
costs.
7. 348 of the samples were fresh milk. 13 of these, or 3.7
per cent, were adulterated, compared with 9.3, 6.5, 8.7, 4.8,
and 1.7, in the five preceding years.
68 samples were bought as butter, and two were found to be
adulterated.
6 samples of condensed milk were analysed, and all found
to be genuine.
Table XVIII. shows the other articles analysed. Three
samples of coffee out of 27, and one of cocoa out of 13, were
adulterated ; the remainder were genuine.
8. Of the 11 adulterated milk samples for which proceedings
were taken, 8 were for abstraction of fat, and 3 for addition of
water.
9. Of the 348 milk samples, 118 were taken on Sunday or
Bank Holidays; three of these were found adulterated. In
the past four years 5 per cent. of samples taken on Sunday
were found adulterated.
10. A record is now kept of all analyses of milk made by
the Public Analyst. The average percentage of fat in all